I think the Layout Settings window could be way easier to navigate through.
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the expandable sub-items are not necessary. Most of the time the whole content fits in the window, so why not show it?
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when there´s more content than what fits in the window, which is the case within two items, when every sub-item is expanded, scrolling is fine! It´s already working like this anyway.
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I´d prefer a more compact presentation of the content, especially the pictures are quite large. The use of fat fonts is also debatable.
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I can expand all sub-items at the same time, only in “Marker und Timecode” the expansion of the two sub-items is either/or. A bug?
That’s the Layout Settings window in general, not the “Sync Layout” window. It shows the settings of the layout you have selected. If the Sync Layout is selected, yes it shows the settings for that Layout, but if you have a different Layout selected it shows that instead.
What you see here is in fact pretty much the “Layout Options” window from Dorico but transplanted into Cubase, so it makes things very easy to find. In Dorico though the sub-sections are not individually expandable and collapsible (they are all “expanded” with no way to collapse), and each window is taller because there are more options available in Dorico for each section and/or more sections, and the Cubase UI seems to prioritize a more tightly packed design (ex. smaller fonts, smaller everything) than Dorico that makes things take up less real estate on the screen. But Dorico is built on a different UI framework than Cubase is and that leads to some differences in appearance.
In terms of organization however, I find it great for people going back and forth between the two programs, because you know exactly where to find the options in one program if you know where to find them in the other.
thx, I edited my post with the correct terms
Thanks for your feedback r.u.
The reason for this specific user interface layout is consistency. The split into various sections is based on what we’ve got in Dorico. The content itself (including the use of large pictures to show what’s going on) does also follow Dorico as closely as possible.
The type of user interface element is the same as used in the left zone panels in Cubase. The behaviour you see in the Marker and Timecode section is a setting you possibly changed accidentally. If you right click in the menu, you can toggle behaviour to open individual sections exclusively.
